January 29, 2010

Facebook claims that 50% of active users log into the site each day. This would mean at least 175m users every 24 hours… A considerable increase from the previous 120m.

Twitter now has75m user accounts,but only around 15m are active users on a regular basis. It’s still afair increase from the estimated 6-10m global users from a few monthsago.

LinkedIn has over50m members worldwide. This means an increase of around 1m members month-on-month since July/August last year.

Facebook currently has in excess of 350 million active users on global basis. Six months ago, this was 250m… meaning around a 40% increase of users in less than half a year.

Flickr now hosts more than 4bn images. A massive jump from the previous 3.6bn I wrote about.

More than 35m Facebook users update their status each day. This is 5m more than towards the end of July, 2009.

Wikipedia currently has in excess of 14m articles, meaning that it’s 85,000 contributors have written nearly a million new posts in six months.

Photo uploads to Facebook have increased by more than 100%. Currently, there are around 2.5bn uploads to the site each month – this was around a billion last time I covered this.

There are more than 70 translations available on Facebook. Last time around, this was only 50.

Back in 2009, the average user had 120 friends within Facebook. This is now around 130.

Mobile is even bigger than before for Facebook, with more than 65m users accessing the site through mobile-based devices.In six months, this is over 100% increase. (Previously 30m). As before,it’s no secret that users who access Facebook through mobile devicesare almost 50% more active than those who don’t.

There are more than 3.5bn pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, etc.) shared each week on Facebook.

There are now 11m LinkedIn users across Europe.

Towards the end of last year, the average number of tweets per day was over 27.3 million.